Month: July 2011

  • laughingsquid: WAR-TOYS, Brian McCarty Documents Children Making Art During War

  • etc press releases well played 3.0

    ETC Press is excited to announce the release of “Well Played 3.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning” by Drew Davidson et al. Following on Well Played 1.0 and 2.0, this book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a…

  • Writing Tips from Annual Reports

    Posted on July 5, 2011 by Lloyd Morgan at Lone GunMan Proving that good writing can be found anywhere, writer Nancy Friedman points to Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s annual reports as examples of excellent copy writing. I cannot but agree. Friedman submits that we can learn to write better copy by studying Warren Buffett’s…

  • artismyhustle: kbas: Do ureself a favor and cop Paul Arden’s ‘It’s not how good you are, but how good you want to be.’ i love this book I’ve been trying to work through this idea, but bump against my own ego. It’s a personal challenge as well as a professional one in academia and industry.

  • Adam Steve Lilith & Eve Golem series (in)Action Figure (by RafaelFajardo)

  • Adam Steve Lilith & Eve Golem series (in)Action Figure (by RafaelFajardo)

  • Adam Steve Lilith & Eve Golem series (in)Action Figure (by RafaelFajardo)

  • laughingsquid: Indie Game, a Documentary About Independent Video Game Designers (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • A Library Sans Livres

    thenewinquiry: Vintage library poster from the New York Public Library Archives  Will the library of the future be a reliquary of precious artifacts or the information processor that obliterates them? By Olivia Rosane “I suspect that the human species—the unique human species—is on the road to extinction, while the Library will last on forever.” —Borges,…

  • wilwheaton: In May of this year, Pixar animator Austin Madison kindly hand-wrote the following open letter to aspiring artists, in a bid to inspire them through times of creative drought. It’s a lovely, eloquent letter, and in fact contains advice valuable to people in many a creative field. It was written as a contribution to…